Sport(s) Basketball Siblings Saul Smith, Brian Smith Date joined 1995 | Role Basketball Coach Title Head coach Name G. Smith Parents Tubby Smith, Donna Smith | |
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Born January 14, 1977 (age 47) Scotland, Maryland ( 1977-01-14 ) Grandparents Parthenia Smith, Guffrie Smith Similar People Tubby Smith, Jimmy Patsos, Dylon Cormier, Saul Smith, Mark Fox | ||
Loyola Coach G. G. Smith - Postgame
Guffrie Gibson "G. G." Smith (born January 14, 1977) is the current college basketball head coach of the Loyola Greyhounds and a former high school basketball coach and college assistant coach.
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Early life and college playing career
A native of Leonardtown, Maryland , Smith is the son of college basketball coach Tubby Smith. G.G. attended Cascia Hall Preparatory School while his father coached at the University of Tulsa. After graduating from Cascia Hall in 1995, Smith attended the University of Georgia and played basketball for the Georgia Bulldogs under Tubby Smith, who had been hired to coach at Georgia the same year. A point guard, Smith joined the starting lineup as a sophomore and averaged 9.5 points and 2.4 rebounds. He later played his junior and senior seasons under Ron Jirsa. As a senior, Smith averaged 8.5 points and 2.3 rebounds. Smith graduated from Georgia in December 1999 with a degree in health and physical education.
Coaching career
Smith began his coaching career as an assistant coach and teacher at Lexington Catholic High School in Lexington, Kentucky. In the fall of 2000, Smith enrolled at the University of Kentucky for graduate school and joined Tubby Smith's staff as a graduate assistant. Completing his master's degree in sports management in 2002, Smith became an assistant coach at Tennessee Tech. From 2004 to 2006, Smith was an assistant at Armstrong Atlantic State, then at Johns Hopkins for the 2006–07 season.
After six seasons as an assistant under Jimmy Patsos, Smith succeeded Patsos as head coach at Loyola University Maryland in 2013.